Our hall is filled with heroes representing development finance institutions from every corner of the globe. Tasked with unlocking private capital to address the infrastructure gap and enable bankable project pipelines worldwide, they face key questions. How can we best mobilise large-scale private capital investment into climate, infrastructure, and development finance projects? How are innovative financing solutions, such as equity bridge financing and blended instruments, efforts to crowd in the private sector through syndications and guarantees, and promoting local currency lending playing out? How can we better aid in project preparation support and the implementation of acceptable ESG standards? What more can DFIs do to facilitate investment from institutional investors?

Anita Yadav

Senior Advisor,

New Development Bank

Kome Ajegbo

Structured Product Solutions + Sustainability,

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC)

Kofi Asumadu Addo

Head, Guarantees & Specialised Finance,

Afreximbank

Isaac Solomon

President (Ag.),

Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)

Colin Buckley

Managing Director and General Counsel,

British International Investment (BII)

Natalie de Wit

Head of Strategy,

DEG

Moderator

Sam McManus

Director,

Exile Group (TXF, Proximo & Uxolo)